Pat Buchanan warns of utopian goals pushed by likes of Mao, de Blasio, Obama.
When President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing in 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong – with his Marxist revolution, Great Leap Forward and Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – had achieved an equality unrivaled anywhere.
That is, until Pol Pot came along.
There seemed to be no private cars on Beijing’s streets. In the stores, there was next to nothing on the shelves. The Chinese all seemed dressed in the same blue Mao jackets.
Today there are billionaires and millionaires in China, booming cities, a huge growing middle class and, yes, hundreds of millions of peasants still living on a few dollars a day.
Hence, there is far greater inequality in China today than in 1972.
Yet, is not the unequal China of today a far better place for the Chinese people than the Communist ant colony of Mao?
Lest we forget, it is freedom that produces inequality.
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